St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-30
Establishments
Totals. 1908
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In 1887, the report says. there were,
according TO the best information OBJ
tainable, SOB strikes, the details of which
are not available. The report shows
that during the six years covered by
the investigation New York had the
largest number of establishments af-
fccted. both by strikes and lOckOuts,
there being for the former 9,247 and for
the latter 1.52S. The building
total number of es Adjustments
engaged in strikes. The total
number of employees involved in the
whole number of strikes for the entire
period is shown to have been 1,31S,G24.
The number of employees originating the
strikes was 1,020,S32. The number of
employees in all establishments before
the strikes occurred was l,662, 045, while
the whole number employed in the esq
Establishments involved after the strikes
occurred was l,636, 247-a loss of 25,19S.
There were OBS new employees en-
gagged after the strikes, and 81
4S3 were brought from other
places than those i'll which the strikes
occurred. In =, 1S2 establishments lock-
outs were ordered du ing the period
named. In these there were Ia, .95 en-
plOyeS before the lOckoutS occurred, and
number actually locked out was 159.54S.
There were 1896 new employees Sc
cured at the close of lOckOuts and
5,6S2 were brought from other
places than those i'll which the
lOckoutS occurred. 1T should be
remembered, however" says the report,
THAT these figures do not represent tue
actual numbers of individual establish
ments, or different employees engaged,
as in many cases there have been two
or more strikes or lOckoutS affecting the
same establishment in the same year
In such cases the establishment and the
numberOt employees engaged are du-
plicated."
OF THE WHOLE NUMBER
of employees involved in strikes during
the six years covered by the report
SS.56 per cent were males II "A per cent
were females. Of those involved in
lockOuts during the same period 6S.7S
per cent were males and 31.22 per cent
were females. An examination of the
tables appended to the report shows
that New York, Pennsylvania, Mas
sachusetts, Ohio and Illinois represent
74.74 per cent of the whole number of
establishments affected by strikes
throughout the country and $3.50 per
cent of the lOckOuts. The five states.
it is stated, contain 40 per cent
of all the manufacturing eS
Establishments, and employ SIS per cent Of
the capital invested in mechanical in
dustrieS of the United States. Of the
% 1856 establishments in which strikes
occurred, in 1882, OF 81. per cent of
the whole. strikes were ordered by labor
organizations, while Of the 2,1S2 estab-
lishments in which lock-OutS occurred,
1,753, or S0.34 per cent, were ordered by
combinations of managers. OF the
whole number of establishments sub
jected to strikes, there were temporarily
closed for business 13,443, or 6J.19 per
cent, on account of lOck-OutS, go per
cent. The average StOppage on account
OF strikes was 23.l days, for lOck-outs %
days. The results of the strikes, so far
as gaining the objects sought are con-
cerned, are shown to be as follows:
Success followed in 10, 407 cases. or 1853
per cent of the whole: partial success
in 1904, or 1915 per cent of the whole,
and failure followed in 500 cases, or
39.S9 per cent of the whole By lock-outS,
564 establishments, or 25.S5 per cent of
the whole, succeeded i'll gaining their
points: 100 or II per cent partly sue
ceeded, and ,305 or $3.50 per cent failed.
AS to causes or objects of strikes il is
shown that increase of wag $ was the
principal one, 1914 per cent. The other
leading causes are given as follows:
For reduction of hours, 1915 per cent;
against reduction of wages, 40 per
cent: for increase of wages and reduc-
ton of hours, 7.57 per cent; against in
crease of hours, .62 per cent: total for
the five leading causes, 77.S3 per cent:
all other causes, 22.17 per cent. Dis
claiming absolute accuracy, the re-
lna Of IL md
employers resulting from strikes and
lockOutS, as follows:
LOSSES TO STRIKERS
during the six years covered by the in
vestigationS, S51, $40 65. Loss to en-
plOyes through lOckOuts for the same
period, IS. 1917, or total wage loss to
employees of 59,94S, So. This loss
occurred for both strikes and lockOutS in
24.51S establishments, or an average
loss of s2,445 to each estab-
lishment, or of nearly $40 to each
striker involved. The assistance given
to strikers during the same period, so
far as aScertainable, amounts to $500
057; to those suffering from lOckoutS,
81, 105.52S, or total of Si,430. 595. These
amounts, however, the commissioner
says, are undoubtedly too low.
THE EMPLOYERS LOSSES
through strikes for the six years
amounted to $50, 7I2. COS; through lock
outs. 3, 432, POI. or a total loss to the
establishments involved of SS4, 164, 914.
The appended tables also show that the
burden of strikes was borne by thin teen
industries, viz: Boots and shoes 352
establishments: brick-making, AS;
building trades. 5000; clothing, 1.72S:
cOoperage, 4S4: food preparations, 1,419;
furniture, 49l: lumber, 395: metals and
metallic goods, 1855; mining, 1000;
stone, 46S; tobacco, 1853: transpOrta-
ton, 1,41S. These represent S9.35 per
cent Of the whole number subjected to
strikes.
IN LOCKOUTS
five trades bore so per cent of the whole
burden as follows: Boots and shoes,
155 establishments; building trades,
531: clothing, 2i3; metals and metallic
goods, rs. and tobacco, 226, or a total of
1,761. Besides completing the field
work for this report, and the cOmpila-
ton of the information, the bureau has
carried on almost to completion the in
vestigatiOn begun last year. concerning
the moral. physical and economical con-
di tons Of the working women of great
cities, and has continued its inveStiga-
ton into the cost of the distribution of
great staple products. 1t has also I'M
dertaken, according to congressional
instruction, the collection of statistics
of marriage and divorce in the United
States, report of which may be sub
mitted before the close of the present
session of congress.